2016 Kobe Challenger
# 2016 Kobe Challenger

The 2016 Kobe Challenger was a professional tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts. It was the 2nd edition of the tournament which was part of the 2016 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Kobe, Japan between 7 and 13 November 2016.

## Singles main-draw entrants

### Seeds

| Country | Player | $Rank^1$ | Seed |
| - | - | - | - |
| JPN | Yūichi Sugita | 90 | 1 |
| JPN | Yoshihito Nishioka | 97 | 2 |
| JPN | Taro Daniel | 100 | 3 |
| JPN | Go Soeda | 119 | 4 |
| KOR | Chung Hyeon | 127 | 5 |
| KOR | Lee Duck-hee | 149 | 6 |
| AUS | James Duckworth | 160 | 7 |
| JPN | Tatsuma Ito | 164 | 8 |

* $^1$ Rankings are as of October 31, 2016.

### Other entrants

The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:

* Yosuke Watanuki
* Makoto Ochi
* Ken Onishi
* Yusuke Takahashi

The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:

* Shintaro Imai
* Kim Cheung-eui
* Lee Kuan-yi
* Kaito Uesugi

## Champions

### Singles

* Chung Hyeon def. James Duckworth, 6–4, $7–6^{(7–2)}.$

### Doubles

* Daniel Masur / Ante Pavić def. Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan / Christopher Rungkat, 4–6, 6–3, [10–6].
